Thread: Whats your rifle of choice for stalking?

Right on the button Timmay

This rifle must be the goods for stalking!
Look how close those deer are!!!

Originally Posted by Gibo

This rifle must be the goods for stalking!
Look how close those deer are!!!
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What rifle? what deer?

Originally Posted by Gibo

This rifle must be the goods for stalking!
Look how close those deer are!!!
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Id smear that in oil...................oops out loud

Originally Posted by Neckshot

Id smear that in oil...................oops out loud

But she not fat

Originally Posted by Neckshot

Id smear that in oil...................oops out loud

Your girfriend would get jealous!!

Originally Posted by Toby

But she not fat

And?

Originally Posted by R93

Your girfriend would get jealous!!

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Groupie love is shared love Dave you taught me that!

Originally Posted by Gibo

This rifle must be the goods for stalking!
Look how close those deer are!!!

And look how closer the stalker got with the camera!

Originally Posted by Tahr

People seem to think the 6.5x55 is magic. Its not. But it is nice. Moderate recoil and noise are its advantages. But its best hand-loaded, and no matter what you do to it, it runs out of legs at around 350-400 yards and kills begin to be quite slow. Especially on large stags and bull Tahr. Its quite emphatic though out to about 280/300 yards.

I've owned a few and shot many animals at all sorts of ranges with them, and that is my experience.

In real life, its no better than the 308 or 708.

Looking back, the 308 takes a lot of beating. A T3 cut to 18" with a suppressor and firing 130 grn Barnes at 3k would have been adequate for every animal I have ever shot in my lifetime.

I don't think the tahr taken at 580 metres on Saturday would quite agree with you. 127 gr LR TTSX was a rather emphatic killer.

Rem Model Seven in 260 rem with 120gr SP and a Gunworks suppressor. Good from muzzle to 350m coz that's as far as I am confident enough to shoot. I have seen others shoot a lot further with it. It works and I like it which is enough for me

Originally Posted by 260hunter

I don't think the tahr taken at 580 metres on Saturday would quite agree with you. 127 gr LR TTSX was a rather emphatic killer.

There's always an exception

Everyone, as usual, is hung up on calibre again...

I'll take a different route, handling. All the centrefire calibers will kill deer.

I mainly do NI bush, no longer range stuff, I carry my rifle more than I shoot it, It sits in both my hands the whole time I'm hunting, being a bush hunter. For this reason I absolutely love my Kimber Montana, it is a pleasure to work with due to it's handling and it's light weight. I found my first one, in 308, was rather light in the muzzle. My later ones have been .243, and being the same barrel profile with a smaller bore they have more weight in the front and point more naturally

Pffft only good for rats.

Them Kimbers are no good as hammers either.

My first one wasn't!